Great Britain

Isamu Noguchi first went to England in March 1927, spending two days in London before going to Paris to study modern sculpture on a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.  In January 1928 Noguchi returned to London for a short time to research Asian art at the British Museum.  Noguchi worked in London in a Chiswick Mall studio in 1933, and his Beijing brush drawings were exhibited at the Sidney Burney Gallery in the  summer of 1934.  In the 1950s he visited Great Britain to see the Neolithic sites of Stonehenge and Avebury.  But Noguchi's earliest British influence was the poetry of William Blake, which his mother read to him and to which he returned in later life.